Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
de Moore, Lucy
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- ISBN 10
- 006082526X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060825263
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New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2007. xiii, 464 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean text. Top edge lightly soiled. Stated First U.S. Edition. Fine DJ. "'Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights,' declared Olympe de Gouges in 1791. Throughout the French Revolution, women, inspired by a longing for liberty and equality, played a vital role in stoking the fervor and idealism of those years. In her compelling history of the Revolution, Lucy Moore paints a vivid portrait of six extraordinary women who risked everything for the chance to exercise their ambition and make their mark on history. At the heart of Paris's intellectual movement, Germaine de Sta l was a figure like no other. Passionate, fiercely intelligent and as consumed by love affairs as she was by politics, she helped write the 1791 Constitution at the salon in which she entertained the great thinkers of the age. At the other end of the social scale, her working-class counterparts patrolled the streets of Paris with pistols in their belts. Theroigne de Mericourt was an unhappy courtesan when she fell in love with revolutionary ideals. Denied a political role because of her sex, she nevertheless campaigned tirelessly until a mob beating left her broken in both mind and body. Later came the glittering merveilleuses, whose glamour, beauty and propensity for revealing outfits propelled them to the top of post-revolutionary society. Exuberant, decadent Theresia Tallien reportedly helped engineer Robespierre's downfall. In so doing, she and her fellow 'sans-chemises' ushered in a new world that combined sexual license with the amorality of the new Republic. / Lucy Moore was born in 1970 and educated in Britain and the United States before reading history at Edinburgh University. She is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed Maharanis. She lives in London." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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- Título
- Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
- Autor
- Moore, Lucy
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- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 006082526X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060825263
- Editorial
- HarperCollinsPublishers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2007
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Catálogos del vendedor
- European / 6. Neo-Classical & Romantic; European / French;
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